Red Riding Hood Slots
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise, as KA Gaming have packed their Red Riding Hood video slot with high-paying symbols, free games, and a fun ‘Find Grandma’ bonus round. This isn’t the first online casino game to be based on the classic tale and our reviewers are sure that this Red Riding Hood slot won’t be the last, but it could be one of the best. Five reels are crossed by 35 paylines and cartoon-style graphics of the famous characters will treat you to some of the top prizes when they cross any line from the left side.
If you don’t know the tale, here is the briefest of brief outlines. Red Riding Hood is taking some food for her Grandma, but Gran been eaten by a wolf who now waits for his next meal by hiding in her bed, disguised as the little old lady. Fortunately, a Woodcutter is on hand to chop the wolf open and Grandma is still in one piece, leading to everyone, (expect the wolf of course), living happily ever after.
KA Gaming have skilfully blended fairytale with slot machine, adding in some nice animations, a soundtrack that fits in with the theme and the potential for gamblers to collect prizes of up to 14,000x their total stakes! A wild symbol that can multiply wins during the free spins and the chance of a big win in the bonus game could help players to live happily ever after if the right combinations all land together.
Off to Grandma’s House
The KA Gaming slot machine developers have used transparent reels to give you a clearer view of the woodland setting. Fireflies dance around the trees and toadstools of this peaceful setting, which has been designed with a lot of attention to detail. If you are playing the mobile optimized version, it may be a little harder to appreciate the details, but they can be seen in full on desktop PC’s and laptops.
Even the playing card symbols that will tend to pay out the smaller, but more frequent prizes, are richly decorated in gold leaves and given jewel-like effects. If you review the Red Riding Hood paytable, you’ll see how much this slot pays out when at least three symbols of the same kind stop across any of the 35 lines.
A basket of fruit, a house, the wolf, and Grandma will all appear, but Red Riding Hood is worth a huge 1,500x your per line stake when she runs right across a line. However, even these values are dwarfed by the special bonus symbols.
A Forest Full of Features
The bonus symbol that you are most likely to see is the game title, which is able to substitute for others if needed to complete a combination. But when this wild symbol fills a line without substituting for anything else, you win 20,000x the per line stake.
The Woodcutter is even more valuable. He’s a scatter symbol who pays out in any places on the reels, with three, four or five worth wins of 175x, 700x, or a vast 14,000x your total stake. You then get to play 15 free spins and during these, wins that don’t include the wild symbol will be doubled in value. If the wild appears on its own across a payline without substituting, that win will also be doubled, and any time it substitutes for others to complete a combination, the payout can be multiplied by between six and ten times.
Our review experts agree that the highlight of the Red Riding Hood slot game is the Find Grandma bonus. It’s just a quick round that’s triggered by the house symbol appearing on three or more reels across a payline.
All you need to do is choose from one of the two images of Grandma who has her back turned to you. If you find her, you win a coin prize, but if it’s the wolf, the round ends without a win. The amount won depends on how much you staked on the triggering spin, so let’s now take a quick review of the betting options available in the Red Riding Hood slot.
Facts and Figures on the Game
The standard KA Gaming command buttons are used, which means it’s easy to adjust the value of coins and then to choose how many coins to have on each line. You can activate just a single line if you really want to, but at just 0.35 per spin with all of them in play it makes much more sense to activate them all and raise stakes to suit from there. The maximum wager goes all the way up to a high limit of 1,400.00 per spin.
An Autoplay option lets you choose up to 100 uninterrupted spins although there’s no way to pre-set win or loss limits to end the round. You also have the choice of gaming platforms, with Android, Windows and iPhone or iPad mobile devices are all compatible with the game.
Gaming Labs International have independently certified this and all other KA Gaming online casino slots as being fully fair at all times.
Other Versions of a Classic Tale
If you like the Red Riding Hood story, there are several other online casino slots that our reviewers think you should check out. Perhaps the most widely available comes from Red Rake Gaming, whose Little Red Riding Hood video slot plays out over five reels and ten paylines. Bonuses include the basket of food which is a wild multiplier, plus ten free spins where you collect characters to add on more games.
The Little Red Riding Hood slot from Cateyano takes an altogether darker view of the tale. Stacked wild wolf symbols help you to extra wins, while a grown-up Riding Hood is a scatter symbol who awards up to 22 free games where the axe multiplies winning whenever it appears.
The Verdict: Land the Bonuses for a Fairytale Ending
In normal gameplay, this is a low-volatility slot game and our review team managed to land win after win from the Red Riding Hood slot. But claiming a big payout from the scatter symbol and triggering the free spins is much more difficult and we would have preferred it if KA Gaming reduced the scatter pays to give players more bonus spins.
The Find Grandma feature is much easier to trigger and although you only have a 50/50 chance of picking the right character, it’s a fun round that can pay out some decent prizes.
